"If the King loves music, it is well with the land."
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"Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things."
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"The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom."
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"Never lose your child's heart."
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"The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart."
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"If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love; if you rule men and they are unruly, look into your wisdom; if you are courteous to them and they do not respond, look into your courtesy. If what you do is vain, always seek within."
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"Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else."
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"Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die."
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"I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger."
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"The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity; the feeling of shame and dislike is the beginning of righteousness; the feeling of deference and compliance is the beginning of propriety; and the feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.Men have these Four Beginnings just as they have their four limbs. Having these Four Beginnings, but saying that they cannot develop them is to destroy themselves."
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"Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man."
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"Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies."
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"He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature."
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"When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil."
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"The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find."
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"The great person never loses a childlike spirit."
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"A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him."
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"A great man is one who has not lost the child's heart."
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"He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven."
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"When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their wishes, they cultivated their personal character, and became illustrious in the world. If poor, they attended to their own virtue in solitude; if advanced to dignity, they made the whole empire virtuous as well."
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